skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, this is interesting!

>I have a serious question: did you not come across any of this research?

I hadn't seen the more recent developments on these preventative glasses, no. However I don't tend to give too much credence to individual studies especially when reported through mainstream media. You see such studies and articles supporting all kinds of contradictory conclusions all the time.

Wikipedia isn't a reliable source, but it is kind of useful as a quick overview of current ideas on a topic. Skimming the article,

>The near work hypothesis, also referred to as the "use-abuse theory" states that spending time involved in near work strains the intraocular and extraocular muscles. Some studies support the hypothesis, while other studies do not.[3] While an association is present, it is not clearly causal.[3]

and

>There is preliminary evidence that the protective effect of outdoor activities on the development of myopia is due, at least in part, to the effect of long hours of exposure to daylight on the production and the release of retinal dopamine.[15][29][30][31]

So, immediately it seems like we aren't so certain as you suggest we are what the cause of myopia is. And your assertion that "..exposure to light brightness has nothing to do with myopia" is directly contradicted here. And from a cited recent (2019) review paper [1]

> Huang et al. highlighted, in a recent systematic review and meta-analysis, that near-work activities were related with higher odds of myopia (odds ratio 1.14; 95% CI 1.08–1.20) and that the odds of myopia increased by 2% (OR: 1.02; 95% CI 1.01–1.03) for every one diopter-hour more of weekly near work [110].

> In contrast, there are studies reporting that near work is not associated with faster rates of myopia progression [85, 111–113].

> Therefore the relationship between near work and myopia is complex and needs to be investigated.

> On the other hand, several recent epidemiological studies suggest that greater time spent outdoors might have a protective effect against myopia development and progression [114–116].

So, though I am far from being an expert after reading these few articles, they all seem to strongly contradict your assertion that "It's not unknown", and also that the research all agrees with your points.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875023/
All the low hanging fruit for medical treatments have been done already, so right now it's incredibly hard to improve on the situation.

I'm really hopeful though about the genetic revolution that's happening though, I just wish it was happening faster (my girlfriend just got diagnosed with cancer again today :( )
Unsure about the >> Seagate in there, that info is over a a decade old now(?). It's worth pointing out they have a 12% failure rate on their highest density units but the other ones seem to do well outside of a DC environment.
60-70 gigabits per second for $40/month? Guessing you mean megabits. Not worth being packet inspected. 1gbit on comcast seems to give 42 mbps upload, was 50 a few months ago. ~$80/mo

edit: hitting 48-50 mbps again today, sweet
> Is the flamewar tangent part of this the comment on capitalism or "Capitalized medicine"? Doesn't really seem flamie to me but obviously others disagree.

The problem is the generic ideological tangent. You can perhaps (maybe!) imagine a substantive article and thread on the economics of cures vs. treatments. But that would require different initial conditions—primarily an interesting, informative article that brought lots of relevant information. Relevant information is flame retardant.

The situation is different when the topic is "FDA approves first monthly injectable to treat HIV infection" and the comment is swerving generically into "capitalized medicine". Generic tangents, especially when the impetus is snarky or unsubstantive, make threads reliable less interesting, and generic ideological tangents almost always turn into flamewars. The reason is that there's very little specific information to discuss—that's the meaning of "generic".

Off-topic tangents can be great when they're unpredictable and curious, but generic tangents are the opposite of that. They're more like getting sucked into the gravitational field of a much larger body, if not a black hole, that pulls all nearby topics toward itself and renders them all the same. Avoiding repetition is the biggest problem that a forum like HN—dedicated to curiosity—actually has, so it's a big deal: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I hope this helps explain things a bit. There are lots of past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... also, but you'll unfortunately—and ironically—have to wade through some generic repetition to find the interesting bits.
My naive explanation: fiber networks handle incredible loads, and a single fiber line might correspond to 10+ Tbs (terabytes per second). So all that data needs to go somewhere else, and if it gets shunted, packets get backed up, resulting in a cascading failure.

Note: I am not a fiber technician nor do I work for a large ISP.
The Serval WS from System76: A Linux Workstation Running PopOS
It's nice but it's not there yet in terms of good UX. Needs a lot of help in that department. Plex is a lot easier to use still. Once Jellyfin gets its shit together in that respect I think there will be good competition.
Does this give me a tool I can use to write my own documentation?
And a number of the library vendors' libraries last for decades with only drive/tape swaps along the way. The SL8500 is on its second decade of sales for example. Usually what kills them is the vendor deciding not to release firmware updates to support the newer drives. The stock half inch cartridge form factor dates from 1984 with DLT & 3480. Given there have been libraries with grippers capable of moving a wide assortment of DLT/LTO/TXX/etc cartridges at the same time. Its doubtful if that will change anytime in the future. So if you buy one of the big libraries today it will likely last another decade or two, maybe three. There aren't many pieces of IT technology you can utilize that long.
Free and fair elections are important, but there is no evidence to suggest that the 2020 elections were not free and fair.

It was weaponized patriotism, not misguided patriotism.
Loved my Aspire One as well. It was my only computer for a semester in university. Played YouTube without a hitch, ran old 3D games smoothly, and compiled my CompSci assignments just fine.
This. Even if you have redundant lines with multiple providers there is a good chance they are part of the same fiber bundle. It can be really difficult to get providers to admit who they are leasing from and what the physical runs are.
> The law states someone has to 'knowingly try to interfere etc' but the challenge is that you'd have to prove that Trump knew he lost.

But surely he was knowingly try to interfere even if he had in fact won.
Short Sellers Crushed Like Never Before as Retail Army Charges
In addition to cable going to ads, it deserves mention that many shows today feature brand advertising right in the program.

I pay for Netflix, but go watch a Korean drama and they are clearly advertising Subway, KFC, Samsung, etc. right there in the show through the show itself.

Movies do this too, and you paid for that expensive ticket. Wayne's World even did a parody of this in 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjB6r-HDDI0

Advertising is incredibly pervasive in our modern society and only going to increase.
That may be the case but you can’t discount the possibility that when you are shopping for something, your choices are influenced by advertising that you have previously been exposed to whether you are aware of it or not. Your decision to go shopping for something in the first place may be influenced by it too.
Thanks for letting us know. I'm a client of yours and I'm happy with the service. Aside: Ever consider making some portion of the storage available for sharing. I often take screenshots/share documents with my teams and use a program that can use SFTP. Great work.
GitLab team member here. I think you will find these feature comparison pages to be pretty robust:
- https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/gitlab-com/feature-comparis...
- https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-compar...

Let me know if there are specific features you have questions about.
A natural development of the remote work capability sparked by Covid-19 in an accelerated way. One of the major drives for offices was the growth of manufacturing businesses that required an overlay of administrative workers to deal with orders for new goods and buying the parts being used as specialty parts makers emerged(nuts/bolts/transistors/IC etc), as well as the need to measure output, pay wages, collect invoices etc. The old business model did not trust unwatched, unmeasured workers - this has changed. All order flow, wages, parts buying etc, can now be done online, and measured online = OK to pay online. This is a new freedom for businesses as well as workers to eliminate the tedious drive to and from work, to buy lunches away from home, to buy and maintain suits of clothes - working naked is fine as far as productions is concerned, and you can even get a suited zoom avatar that takes part naked with a smart cam topping it off with a face view so non-one knows you are naked. Racial/gender bias can vanish, who knows who is behind a neutral avatar.
Cities will grit their teeth and try to outlaw/tax 'sheds'
The great human diaspora is upon us, rejoice...
As for large centers, a great levelling will occur. Rents and property values will decline. Some businesses will adapt - some not. New tenants will live in re-purposed offices - new plumbing/wiring needed. Dual use buildings will emerge, with offices on one floor, and workers living on another. Giggers with the capacity to perform 3 or more busines jobs will emerge - who cares as long as the performance metrics are met?
Old style control freaks will rage.
We live in interesting times...
3 gigabits per second DSL and 5 gigabits per second to a satellite? You (like the other commenter...) probably mean megabits. And also Gb is gigabits, but your cap is probably in bytes, gB or GB.
A more in-depth treatment of cities, remote work, and their future: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/can-knowledge-industries-e...
Are there Samsung TV clients for it?

If not is there a workaround? I often wonder if I should attempt to flash my TV’s OS. Does someone have experience with this?
Couldn't find on the linked article, but what's the lag for people who actually get tested?

I mean, seems that this 3 years lag is because people only get tested if they have any apparent health issue and the doctor thinks it might be HIV.

With Covid, it might take a few days for a test show positive, after exposure - say, Christmas dinner. If someone thinks they might have been exposed to HIV, how long until a test can safely tell it's a true negative/positive?
They of course could have just bought the network only to squash it.
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Nice succinct writeup. Here's a great deep dive on "Practical Load Balancing with Consistent Hashing" from a Vimeo engineer (2017) [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6oiBJxcaA
There are indeed huge profit incentives for a cure. There are even larger profits to be had from a monthly treatment that the patient has to take for the rest of their lives.

Are you saying people that aren’t taking a monthly biologic injection for example will start coming out of the woodwork for a cure when normally they wouldn’t seek treatment for their malady?
Why not take the simpler interpretation that millions of dollars of equipment was in the buildings that were destroyed, and it took a while for the network's self-healing algorithms to discover a new steady-state configuration that approximated the performance of what was suddenly lost?
I can foresee a public campaign by regional urban governments against remote work, complete with an expensive PR re-branding of it as suspect, probably harming various vulnerable people, etc.
Coming up with a cure for HIV infection would be an easy Nobel Prize in medicine.

That's a pretty powerful motive, historically. If you want to argue that it doesn't apply here, the burden, I'm afraid, is on you, not us.
Business Insider Did Nothing When the Pandemic Hit. It Worked
VR was exciting sure, but Half Life Alyx took it to another level and sorry to say ruined other VR games for me. My index now sits collecting dust in the garage.

The sounds, the textures, the interaction, the bosses, the level where you have to hold your breath to press the elevator button and avoid the monster. It elevated the medium so far beyond anything that exists or is coming, it's sad.

Valve please make more games. :(
Is the docking station supplied with enough current? 3.5" drives tend to take considerably more power (and use 12V for their motor) particularly when spinning up. I'd give those drives another try in a different docking station or connect them directly to a PC, RAID or NAS device.
At this point I just assume that photos with news articles don't really have any direct connection to the content of the article. It's either laziness, an attempt at emotional manipulation, or a combination of the two. I'm always pleasantly surprised to find that a photo is actually the exact thing being discussed in the article.
Can you explain what is the difference between mutation, lineage, variant, strain, please?
We're in the same situation. We're in bronze only because of approvals, team of 17. We picked Gitlab precisely for best price of this feature on the market. We've already paid for full year starting February, in December.
Comcast upload is a farce. They don't bother stating it anywhere, I presume because they modify it as needed to satisfy their needs for providing TV channels or their "burst" download speeds.
> Are you somehow suggesting that they should just sit there and hope that people who have never heard of their product independently decide they happen to want or need that product and seek it out, unprompted?

Yeah, it's even got a name: shopping.
What a wonderful era of creativity in machine design. Building a machine to reproduce the behavior of living systems goes a long way back, and this mouse acting like a mouse makes me think of a great documentary on automata, spending some time talking about the people and politics around building these fantastically expensive robotic birds and swans and whole towns driven by a clock. [1]

Building a machine that mimics neural processing is just a continuation of that tradition. One other machine that amazed me is Paul Westons's numa-rete, an early attempt at neural networks composed of 400 "synapses" which can count the number of objects on its surface without any CPU to coordinate it, just direct parallel analog computation. A good explanation is here [2], this was in 1961.

`What will be done is to show what is inside, revealing how little intelligence it really had. However, many uninitiated persons who tried and failed at the time to “trick” it into error by, e.g., inserting objects within holes in larger objects were ready to believe that it was intelligent`

[1] https://youtu.be/NcPA0jvp9IQ

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160401023457/http://bcl.ece.il...
FWIW, I live down the street from where that zone was. It was indeed a large-scale sit-in-like protest, and cropped up in short term response due to SPD's insane tactics of tear-gassing the surrounding neighborhood before pulling out due to pissing everyone off.

I find that everyone who comments about this zone on here is not actually from Seattle, and just firing off the same talking points.
sudo built with ASLR doesn't make a difference?

NM:

- we can defeat ASLR by partially overwriting the function pointer
getenv_fn (which points to the function sudoers_hook_getenv() in the
shared library sudoers.so); and luckily, the beginning of sudoers.so
contains a call to execve() (or execv()):
I really like this take. The whole time (pandemic onward) I've been thinking: "how can a bunch of small potatoes on WSB actually make such an impact." This neatly explains it... It's the HFT amplifying these actions.
An electronic calculator. Early 1970’s, I think.

Also “Chuck Yeager’s Advanced Flight Simulator” on our office 80286, around 1987.
A Crisis Shouldn’t Go to Waste
> $49/user/m for Premium seems really expensive compared to AzDo and GitHub

Sure, but you know what else $49/user/month for “Premium” is really expensive compared to? GitLab Premium, which is $19/user/month. [0]

> Does GitLab have some killer feature I'm not aware of that justifies spending 2-10x that of the competition?

At least some of the described features seem to be closer to GitHub Enterprise ($21/user/mo) or AzDo Basic+Test ($52/user/mo) than the lower tiers on those, but that's not consistent across the board and the three don't describe features in a way which makes side-by-side comparison easy. But I don't see Premium as clearly overpriced compared to the competition.

> $99/m for Ultimate eds? It doesn’t even explain on the pricing page what you get for that, beyond a couple of bullet points of biz-speak

There’s a detailed feature breakdown of all three plans on the pricing page, with links to more details about each feature.

Unfortunately, its in a stupid scrolling table that only lets you see a few lines at a time, though.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/
> 2. JSON = RecTypeVar('JSON', lambda Self: Union[None, bool, int, float, str, List[Self], Dict[str, Self]])

You don't actually need this workaround—the problem is typechecker support, not syntax. You can use strings for forward definitions, like this:

JSON = Union[str, int, None, bool, List["JSON"], Dict[str, "JSON"]]

What happens next depends on your typechecker. Mypy says this:

error: Cannot resolve name "JSON" (possible cyclic definition)

Pytype says this:

Recursive type annotations not supported yet

But Pyre accepts it and correctly uses it for typechecking.
That's not really my problem, is it? It is the content creator's problem.
Another one I am keeping an eye on is Olaris. It's still in alpha but the codebase is quite nice (go for the backend, react for the front).

https://gitlab.com/olaris/olaris-server/
Well, this ruined my teams Tuesday. We are on the Bronze plan with over 300 users company wide.

My department of 40 does the vast majority (90% plus of all commits/MRs) of the coding in the company, but we enrolled everyone within operations as well so that they could contribute on occasion.

The rest of those users are never going to be worth spending $19 a month on, but it really sucks having to put up barriers from people who do like to contribute on occasion. Feels like we're going in the wrong direction here, so much for devops :(
I've been pretty skeptical on the whole game streaming thing until I installed moonlight and tried it out myself on my android device - it works surprisingly well on LAN.

I wonder if it's possible to play a local multiplayer game using this/parsec or moonlight. I'd love to set it up such that I could play something like Unreal Tournment split screen with two different people in two different locations streaming the same game to both devices and using our controllers are separate inputs on the same computer.
https://workadventu.re

You have a virtual office and when you approach someone on the map, it creates adhoc webrtc conference. You can have up to 4 people meetings this way.

You can create a custom map of your own office to make it feel real. We started using it last week in my team. Really fun.
Classifying awesome engineer = founding engineer of company seems to be a category error. It might be the case that female engineers are even more absent using this metric due to biases in venture capital and different risk taking preferences.
plan 9 likes those WORM filesystems, Venti, cwfs, or this early incantation https://9p.io/sys/doc/fs/fs.html

I guess you can modify the WORM fs to do the same as this No-Order fs does.
It's usually 10% of your download it seems, apparently until you go past about 250 mbps.
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FB Container never stopped working fine for me. You should be able to use them again, as we do.
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its 3/5/10/35mbit up, but consistent. 35 is the docsis limit on their gigabit cable offering
I'm pretty sure I have Comcast fiber, its 1Gbps down and around 750Mbps upload and there's a wire coming out of the wall into the router so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean, clearly the payloads they're launching themselves will have a payoff, that's why they're launching them?

Regardless, commercial launches is what I was talking about as well. Do you have a reference for the idea that GTO launches are the only ones which are profitable / significantly more profitable than other launches? I haven't seen that. Because otherwise it seems pretty out there to only look at a small subset of their commercial launches.

And I'm assuming they'll do more GTO launches once Starship + Superheavy is online.
Indeed, and the savings are fairly small even in the best case, jQuery is 28kB gzipped, a drop in the ocean of the multi-megabyte payload of most big sites these days.
Former CEO of Great Canadian Gaming charged after lying to get Covid-19 vaccine
AI strawberries and blockchain chicken: digital ag to rescue global foodsecurity
When houses are created there are building codes to adhere to. For example, when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it. In this way, once the walls are in place, drilling away into the wall, or nailing, would hit the metal plate, thus provides some safety mechanism. As another example, underground, in public areas are markings (or at least procedures) to identify such areas gas pipe areas before excavating.

How are the fiber optics being cut? Are there no procedures for this or is there some challenges how the infra is setup today?
Same situation here.
The polluters aren't the ones paying the increased medical costs. That's the problem.
> Even after it was proven that the story was true

Where did you get that that story was true? It was mostly fake but with some elements of truth in it. The story itselve didn't even seem credible was my POV.

Source?
Drive enclosures, raid/etc interfaces, and motherboards burning electricity make it a lot more complex than raw HD's vs raw tape. Tape libraries cost a fortune, but so do 10+ racks of cases+power supplies+servers needed to maintain the disks of equal capacity.

Tape suffers from "enterprise" which means the major vendors price it so that its just a bit cheaper than disk, and they lower their prices to keep that equation balanced because fundamentally coated mylar/etc wrapped around a spindle in an injection molded case is super cheap.
https://excalidraw.com is great for this
They never advertise upload bandwidth anywhere, and it varies hugely when I'm at other people's houses that have cable internet. I assumed it's because they might provision 200mbps down / 10mbps up for a neighborhood, and then throttle you down as necessary.
The page mentions 89% of the features available in Starter being available in the free tier. Is there a good enumeration anywhere of what those features are and what they 11% that would be lost is?

I'll need to evaluate this for my company in the next year and that would be extremely helpful, as the new pricing grid of course does not include the phased out tier for comparison, which is the specific direct comparison I actually need to make here.
As a person who uses a microwave a lot this sounds terrible, I could live with 30s resolution, but not having adjustable power level would not be acceptable. Cooking anything on 100% power is just a recipe for uneven heating.
Yes, large carriers can't do much when the backhoe strikes.. it happens.. they'll fix it.. and we'll all go on with our lives..